At the end of yesterday's chaos, during which there were a number of incendiary devices sent to prominent liberals and several "suspicious packages" ruled safe by law enforcement, this is where things stood: George Soros (days earlier), Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Maxine Waters, Eric Holder, John Brennan, and Joe Biden were all sent packages known or suspected to be IEDs, with Debbie Wasserman Schultz's name and address used as the return information to implicate her.

This morning, a package said by law enforcement sources to be identical to the other packages was sent to actor (and prominent Trump critic) Robert DeNiro at the address of his Tribeca Productions office.

pic of the package sent to DeNiro- @ShimonPro says that a former police officer who works in the building recognized that it looked like the packages sent/discovered yesterday, alerted authorities. pic.twitter.com/5Cp5PyXQEn

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the person behind this terrorist act is yet finished.

Meanwhile, far from taking stock of their own role in fomenting this nightmare, the Trump cultists have decided that this is a "false flag operation" by liberals. And the messaging was sure coordinated quickly: Last night in Florida, protesters outside the gubernatorial debate were already carrying signs reading "Democrats Fake News Fake Bombs."

And in Wisconsin, where Donald Trump was holding forth at another Make America Clap for Me Again rally, the crowd immediately erupted into a "Lock her up!" chant — the same day an IED was sent to Hillary Clinton.

During his speech, Trump laughably told the same crowd: "No nation can succeed that tolerates violence or the threat of violence as a method of political intimidation, coercion, or control. We all know that. We want all sides to come together in peace and harmony."

National reconciliation would definitely be great, but that's simply not possible when one side is being terrorized and the other side is whining that getting heckled at restaurants for being fascist is the same as getting bombs in the mail for being critics of fascism.

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Explosive Devices Sent to Liberals: The Latest

[Content Note: Terrorism; eliminationism.]

At the end of yesterday's chaos, during which there were a number of incendiary devices sent to prominent liberals and several "suspicious packages" ruled safe by law enforcement, this is where things stood: George Soros (days earlier), Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Maxine Waters, Eric Holder, John Brennan, and Joe Biden were all sent packages known or suspected to be IEDs, with Debbie Wasserman Schultz's name and address used as the return information to implicate her.

This morning, a package said by law enforcement sources to be identical to the other packages was sent to actor (and prominent Trump critic) Robert DeNiro at the address of his Tribeca Productions office.

pic of the package sent to DeNiro- @ShimonPro says that a former police officer who works in the building recognized that it looked like the packages sent/discovered yesterday, alerted authorities. pic.twitter.com/5Cp5PyXQEn

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the person behind this terrorist act is yet finished.

Meanwhile, far from taking stock of their own role in fomenting this nightmare, the Trump cultists have decided that this is a "false flag operation" by liberals. And the messaging was sure coordinated quickly: Last night in Florida, protesters outside the gubernatorial debate were already carrying signs reading "Democrats Fake News Fake Bombs."

And in Wisconsin, where Donald Trump was holding forth at another Make America Clap for Me Again rally, the crowd immediately erupted into a "Lock her up!" chant — the same day an IED was sent to Hillary Clinton.

During his speech, Trump laughably told the same crowd: "No nation can succeed that tolerates violence or the threat of violence as a method of political intimidation, coercion, or control. We all know that. We want all sides to come together in peace and harmony."

National reconciliation would definitely be great, but that's simply not possible when one side is being terrorized and the other side is whining that getting heckled at restaurants for being fascist is the same as getting bombs in the mail for being critics of fascism.

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